Our cities purify our sewage laden drinking water from
lakes and rivers with chlorine to kill the bacteria. Our
swimming pools are loaded with chlorine to accommodate
the hundreds of people that swim in them.

Yet chlorine in our water may be a source of increased
rates of cancer.

For example, consuming chlorinated drinking
water is associated with a 20 to 40% increase in the
incidence of colon and rectal cancer, according to the
results of a Norwegian study published in the
International Journal of Epidemiology in 1992.
Another study done by Harvard University and the Medical
College of Wisconsin found that the consumption of
chlorinated drinking water accounts for 15% of all rectal
cancers and 9% of all bladder cancers in North America.

Thats an additional 6,500 cases of rectal cancer
and 4,200 cases of bladder cancer each year. The study
found that people drinking chlorinated water over long
periods of time have a 38% increase in their chances of
contracting rectal cancer and a 21% increase in the risk
of contracting bladder cancer.

The dangers from inhaling chlorine can exceed those
derived from drinking chlorinated water. The amount of
chloroform, the most common trihalomethane in chlorinated
water, in haled or absorbed through the skin during a
typical shower may be 6 times higher than that absorbed
from chlorinated drinking water, states the
International Health News. Source,
Definitive Guide to Cancer a source book
written by W. John Diamond, M.D. and W. Lee Cowden, M.D.
and Burton Goldberg, published by Future Medicine
Publishing, Inc., Tiburon, California, 1997, see its
website at http://www.alternativemedicine.com/index1.shtml